{"id":50006,"date":"2026-06-22T15:32:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=50006"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:32:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:47:03","slug":"keir-starmer-resigns-as-prime-minister-and-leader-of-labour-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/keir-starmer-resigns-as-prime-minister-and-leader-of-labour-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer resigns as prime minister and leader of Labour Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>BBC:\u00a0 British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Monday that he will step down from office, saying all decisions he made during his tenure were taken with \u201cthe country I love put first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking outside Downing Street, Starmer said he had informed King Charles III of his decision earlier in the day and would remain in office until a successor is chosen.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Burnham, who won a parliamentary by-election last week, is widely regarded as the frontrunner to succeed Starmer. However, the appointment of a new prime minister is not expected until late September, when the Labour Party is scheduled to hold its annual conference.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer said Labour was \u201cpolitically, economically and morally bankrupt\u201d when he assumed leadership two years ago. He added that despite repeated claims that the party was \u201cfinished,\u201d he had proved critics wrong and transformed Labour by \u201crooting out the poison of antisemitism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The outgoing prime minister has asked Labour\u2019s National Executive Committee to open leadership nominations on July 9 and complete the contest before the end of the summer recess, paving the way for a new leader to be in place before Parliament reconvenes in September.<\/p>\n<p>Burnham is expected to take his seat in Westminster on Monday as the race to replace Starmer gets underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC:\u00a0 British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Monday that he will step down from office, saying all decisions he made during his tenure were taken with \u201cthe country I love put first.\u201d Speaking outside Downing Street, Starmer said he had informed King Charles III of his decision earlier in the day and would remain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50008,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50006\/revisions\/50008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}